{"id":1098628,"date":"2021-12-08T12:44:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098628"},"modified":"2021-12-08T12:44:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:44:24","slug":"thats-not-on-the-table-biden-says-on-sending-us-troops-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thats-not-on-the-table-biden-says-on-sending-us-troops-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That\u2019s Not On The Table,\u2019 Biden Says On Sending US Troops To Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthats-not-on-the-table-biden-says-on-sending-us-troops-to-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098628&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the U.S. is not considering sending troops to Ukraine to help against a Russian invasion, adding that he has absolute confidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin \u201cgot the message\u201d on economic consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have pushed back on the idea that the U.S. would deploy troops if <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/08\/roger-wicker-russia-ukraine-nuclear-weapons\/\">Russia<\/a> invades <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/07\/biden-putin-ukraine-russia-sasse-haley-trump\/\">Ukraine<\/a>, instead opting to focus on sanctions. Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/07\/joe-biden-russian-vladimir-putin-ukraine-economic-harm-sanctions\/\">spoke Tuesday with<\/a> Putin and told reporters at the White House that he made clear an invasion would result in \u201ceconomic consequences like none he\u2019s ever seen or ever have been seen in terms of being imposed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president also confirmed senior administration officials\u2019 stance on a military response, saying Wednesday that it\u2019s \u201cnot on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a moral obligation and a legal obligation to our NATO allies if they were to attack under Article 5, it\u2019s a sacred obligation,\u201d Biden said. \u201cThat obligation does not extend to NATO \u2013 I mean to Ukraine. But it would depend upon what rest of the NATO countries were willing to do as well. But the idea that the United States is going to unilaterally use force to confront Russia invading Ukraine is not on, in the cards right now. What will happen is there will be severe consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7333668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"41\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7333668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GENEVA, SWITZERLAND \u2013 JUNE 16: U.S. President Joe Biden (2L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands as Swiss President Guy Parmelin (R) looks on during the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange on June 16, 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland. Biden is meeting his Russian counterpart, Putin, for the first time as president in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Peter Klaunzer \u2013 Pool\/Keystone via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden said he explained the consequences to Putin in a \u201cvery straightforward\u201d manner, adding that \u201cthere were no minced words.\u201d Biden spoke with NATO allies before and after his chat with Putin and while no official agreement appears to have come from the talks, the president told reporters that he hopes there will be more to announce by Friday. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/02\/us-threat-russia-ukraine-war-blinken-lavrov\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;US Issues Threat To European Country Warning About War)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope by Friday we\u2019ll be able to say, to announce to you that we\u2019re having meetings at a higher level, not just with us but with at least four major NATO allies and Russia, to discuss the future of Russia\u2019s concerns relative to NATO writ large and whether or not we can work out any accommodations when it comes to bringing down the temperature along the eastern front,\u201d Biden explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have absolute confidence he [Putin] got the message,\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the U.S. is not considering sending troops to Ukraine to help against a Russian invasion, adding that he has absolute confidence that Russian President &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}